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  • A Swiss mountain guide in profile carrying heavy rope. Photographic postcard by E. Gyger, 193-.
  • Cherry blossom and falling leaves, representing spring and autumn respectively, with box of Aspro pills for use in those seasons. Colour lithograph, 1957.
  • Geology: the Gorner glacier, in the Valais. Lithograph by J. Schmid after A. Calame.
  • J. Worrenburg, the Swiss Dwarf : Little Sarah. Died, at Madron, on Monday, Miss Sarah Roberts, aged 90 years.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin): she receives the prayers of the Swiss who ask for her help in ending the Sonderbund War (?). Engraving by La Richardière after Bader.
  • Geology: the Rhone glacier in the Valais. Engraving by C. Niquet the younger after J.S.D. Besson.
  • A turquoise background bearing the white lettering: "L'AIDS e i bambini: un tema che concerne il medico e i genitori." [AIDS and children: a subject that concerns the doctor and parents]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [UFSP]. Colour lithograph.
  • Two faces beside the dial of a telephone bearing the helpline number '01 461 08 00' representing an advertisement for the support group 'Arbeitsgruppe Frau und AIDS' for women with AIDS by the AIDS-Hilfe Zürich. Colour lithograph by M. Fischer.
  • A woman wearing a feathered hat and holding a poodle on her lap at a table holds up a thumb on which is a blown-up condom; with the message: 'Without? Without me'; Italian version of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • The pharmacy of C. Hersbrunnen (?), Lucerne, Switzerland: a reconstruction of the 18th century shop showing pharmacy equipment and decorations: side view. Photograph, ca. 1920.
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Catalogue

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    Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

    Schneiter, Carl, 1911- | Date: 1939
  • view Station climatérique de Schoeneck sur le Lac des Quatre-Cantons : hydrothérapie, méthodes par l'air comprimé ou raréfié, électricité, massage et gymnastique médicale.
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    Station climatérique de Schoeneck sur le Lac des Quatre-Cantons : hydrothérapie, méthodes par l'air comprimé ou raréfié, électricité, massage et gymnastique médicale.

    | Date: 1894
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    Schweizer Chemieunternehmen im "Dritten Reich" / Lukas Straumann, Daniel Wildmann ; herausgegeben von der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg.

    Straumann, Lukas | Date: [2001], ©2001
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    Hamilton Smith : Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology / Marc A. Shampo and Robert A. Kyle.

    Shampo, M. A. (Marc A.) | Date: 1995
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    L'oesophago-jejuno-gastrostomose" de Roux (1906) / S. Ostini.

    Ostini, Suzanne. | Date: 1992
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